Waste Management provides garbage, recycling and yard/food waste service for the City of Redmond. For questions, service issues, broken carts, or missed collection, please contact Waste Management at 800-592-9995 or visit them online.

Recycling at home is easy - and can really cut your garbage service costs (you garbage bill is based on the size of your garbage cart). Why not recycle when unlimited recycling is already built into your garbage fee?

Curbside recycling is easier than ever with All-in-One Recycling! Combine all recyclable items including clean paper, cans, glass and plastic bottles, jugs and dairy tubs, and cardboard in your large blue recycling cart.

Not Sure Which Plastics can be Recycled?

There is no charge for the collection of extra recyclables that don't fit in your blue-lidded cart. Put them in recycling bins, boxes (limit 2’x2’x2’) or paper bags marked "recycling". No plastic bags, please.

Televisions, computers, and monitors contain toxic substances and are not allowed in the garbage. They can be recycled for no charge. If you have curbside service the following items can be collected at the curb for no charge, but you must call Waste Management at 800-592-9995 to arrange a pickup service:

Electronics can be recycled via the E-Cycle Washington program. Redmond residents can recycle computers, monitors, television, and laptops at no charge at Mitronics located at17455 NE 67th Ct., Ste 100, Redmond. Charges may apply for other electronics.

Safe and Green Cleaning

Many common cleaning products are hazardous to the environment when flushed down the toilet or thrown away*. Fumes from household cleansers and other products make indoor air in the typical home two to five times more polluted than the air outside! Children, seniors, and pets are particularly sensitive to chemicals.

Compact Florescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) and Fluorescent Tubes contain toxic substances and are not allowed in the garbage. Some stores have bins for CFL’s recycling (such as Bartell Drugs or Home Depot– call to confirm before visiting).

CFLs and Fluorescent Tubes can be recycled at King County Factoria Transfer Station Hazardous Waste Locker or at the Wastemobile which periodically visits Redmond at the Home Depot .

Waste Management has a fee-based program for recycling CFLs and Fluorescent Tubes called LampTracker.

Unwanted medicines pose a risk to people’s safety when stored in homes and can pollute the environment when improperly disposed. A significant amount of medicine goes unused; an estimated total of 10 to 33 percent of medicines sold. Medicines in the home were responsible for 85 percent of accidental poisoning deaths in Washington in 2006. Many involved young children and the elderly. The abuse of prescription pain relievers, stimulants, and other medicines is also a growing problem in our communities.

Say 'No' to Junk Mail & Phonebooks!
New Online Service

The King County EcoConsumer program has joined forces with non-profit Catalog Choice to provide a convenient website where residents can opt out of thousands of different catalogs, coupons, credit offers, circulars, newsletters, other junk mailings and unwanted phone books. In addition to making mail and phone book opt-outs easier, this partnership will allow King County to make solid estimates about the amount of paper waste being diverted from its regional landfill.

Using ZIP codes, Catalog Choice will provide to the County data on the amount of mail being reduced and the number of County residents participating. Visit the new website Catalog Choice.

Recycle used cooking oil and keep it out of the sewage system! Instead, convert it to biodiesel, a sustainable, low carbon fuel.

Residents are encouraged to use this free self-service program, open 24 hours a day, all year round. The cooking oil collection tank is located at the northern edge of the parking lot between the City’s Senior Center and campus parking garage at: 8703 160th Ave. NE.

To ensure safe and secure transport and disposal of your fats and grease, put the cooled oil and grease from fryers, pots or pans in a sealed container such as a plastic milk jug. At the disposal tank, slowly pour the cooking oil into the collection container to avoid splatters. Be sure to close the tank's lid when finished. Take your own containers back home for reuse or disposal and leave nothing behind but the cooking oil you deposited.

This collection site is for cooking oil only. NO motor oil or other petroleum products. Thank you!

Three times a year, in the spring, summer and fall, the City of Redmond sponsors a recycling and collection event at the City Maintenance and Operation Center, near Home Depot. The event includes a wide range of materials such as appliances, furniture, bicycles, batteries, tires, and plastic plant containers, as well as paper shredding. While most items are collected at no charge, some do incur a fee. For more information visit the Special Recycling and Collection Events.

Some items such as oil-based paint, pesticides, gasoline, oil and solvent cleaners, and fluorescent bulbs are considered as hazardous and CANNOT be thrown away in your garbage. These items are accepted at:

Clothing, sheets and blankets, shoes tied together, stuffed animals, and purses and backpacks can be collected at the curb if you have curbside garbage service. Put good quality clean clothing and linen in securely tied heavy duty clear plastic bags, and put them two (2) feet from your blue recycling cart.

Important: Include only items that can are in good enough condition to be used by another person. All items must be clean, dry, non-moldy and usable.

The good quality used clothing goes to a local non-profit organization to be resold and benefit people with disabilities. For details visit: Waste Management.

The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 90 billion pieces of direct mail every year. A significant portion of this is unwanted advertising mail, or "junk" mail. Recycling junk mail is a good start, but not receiving junk mail saves landfill space and conserves natural resources. Learn how to reduce your junk mail.

From December through February, yard waste is collected every other week in the City of Redmond. View the collection schedule.

If weather conditions prevent collection of curbside garbage, recycling, or food/yard waste please remove the containers from the street at the end of the day.

Up to twice the regular amount of garbage, recycling, and yard waste will be accepted for no additional charge on your next regularly scheduled collection day for each missed container. Please note: Yard waste will be picked up on your regular pick-up day the next week, even if it is not a regularly scheduled yard debris pick-up week.

No garbage or recycling collection on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day or New Year's Day. Collection will be one day late following these holidays only. For example, at Thanksgiving the Thursday and Friday collections will shift ahead by one day to Friday and Saturday.

Festive doesn’t have to mean wasteful. Green can be your holiday color as well as your way of life. Learn more about Green Holidays resources to offer new and innovative ideas to green up your celebrations.

For information about green building certification programs, construction recycling, incentives to build green and much more visit the City of Redmond’s Green Building and Green Infrastructure Incentive Program or King County’s GreenTools website.